The past few days

Monday was good- picked up my new van in the morning. I like it way more than I even thought I would. It has the neatest features that weren't around when I bought my 2001 Odyssey. It has Bluetooth technology on the steering wheel (can touch a button to answer my cell phone and there is a built-in speaker to talk), a DVD player, wireless headphones, a 6 disc CD-changer, a plug for my IPod, and numerous other features (like cool storage spaces) that I never even knew about when I bought it. I am very happy with it. I don't like getting new cars dirty, but there is already some dirt on the floormats- guess it can't be helped with lovely Michigan weather and 3 kids, but I hate that it no longer looks brand new. You can't beat that new car smell though. Monday night Jen so kindly watched my kids so I could attend BSF. Tuesday, we had a houseful of kids in the afternoon, so my kids had a lot of fun (Jen's kids and 2 of Lynette's), then Lynette took Cobe to Logan's with them. Today, Sadie and I hit Crazy Bounce and had a lot of fun. She is the type of kid who likes action and to be surrounded by her friends, so she loved it. Ryan and I then had to meet up with our builder's assistant because they have already framed our house and we realized that they never made a change in our lower level that we asked them to make. Uh-oh- hope for their sake it isn't too costly to fix! They have to re-frame our entire lower level. I felt badly, but we did ask for the change quite awhile ago, and our builder kindly is going to have the framers change everything. I am sure it won't slow them down- they are way ahead of schedule. They are trucking along! I'll get over there tomorrow and take a picture to post. Then Cobe had a soccer game tonight. They won 5-0 and really scored 7 goals, but for some reason, 2 didn't count. He played goalie for part of a half and made a great save and scored 1 goal that counted and 1 that didn't. He hurt his knee too at some point in the game, and it had already started to swell tonight, so I hope it isn't worse in the morning.

We have yet another showing tomorrow- just found out today around 4:00 so I frantically started cleaning. You would think that with 4 showings and an open house last week, things would be relatively clean- not so much. I started over today. This grit that is left behind when the snow melts gets tracked in the house and the floors dirty quickly. But the house is clean now and all I"ll have to do tomorrow is make beds, put away the last few minute things, etc. 30 minutes more work max.

We close on our construction loan tomorrow as well. I guess there will be no turning back after that! We meet with the interior decorator on Tuesday next week, so I am excited to start picking out details. Excited and nervous. Well, since I can hardly stop yawning, I am going to stop blogging and go to bed.